Storia - Wooden Pens, Hand Made In Italy

[Susanna]

Storia is a new brand that I recently added in my website. It's a small company, located in Bolzano, the furthest north of Italy, where few skilled artisans work with special woods and produce beautiful pens.

Look:

http://www.giardino.it/pens/storia/IMMAGINI/ItaliaAp.jpg Italia

http://www.giardino.it/pens/storia/IMMAGINI/VeneziaAp.jpg Venezia

http://www.giardino.it/pens/storia/IMMAGINI/TorinoAp.jpg Torino
Precious and exotic woods, like cocobolo, thuya, movingui, olive, palissandro. Fountain pens and rollerballs.

 

I published an article in my Blog, with an interview to Mr. Testa, owner, designer, artisan:

"If it’s true we write to remember, to prevent time to blur our memories, it’s also true the tool we use for writing can be itself an object belonging to history. Storia’s pens surely are. Storia is a company based in Bolzano, northern Italy, founded by a brave entrepreneur of Rome, Federico Testa. He designs and handcrafts his pens by himself, producing them in precious woods and metals: “Jewels for writing,” as he describes them. Indeed, there is much to be told about them.
(...) “Each of our pens is a unique and irreproducible object – Federico Testa explains -: the model can be the same in design, but it will always have its unique features. We are talking of handcrafted pens, made out of precious raw woods, chosen for their peculiar features of tenderness and resistance".

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Edited November 11, 2013 by Susanna

[Susanna]

Each pen comes in a small wooden box, like the crates used for apples in the region (Trentino Alto Adige) where the company is located.
Inside, there is also a small sachet with shavings resulted from the turning of the pen. Some of the woods used are so scented that they're often used to perfume wardrobes.

[BeWitz]

marvelous

[Susanna]

I restore this old topic because Storia launched two different models: Parma and Fossile.

 

Parma is hand crafted with Turkish walnut wood, hand turned and refined.
The final result, therefore, is an always unique piece, because the wood veins are always different - and very visible, in the walnut wood - and each pen features different shades and decoration.

http://www.giardino.it/pens/storia/IMMAGINI/ParmaAp.jpg

 

Fossile is a Special Edition, hand crafted from fossil oak wood, coming from Ukraine. Ukraine fossil oak wood lied under swamp's mud for 5000 years, and features a very tough consistence, unlike other swamp oaks. Its color may vary from a very deep brown to a raven-black.
Each pen comes with its radiocarbon dating certificate that attests its authenticity.

 

http://www.giardino.it/pens/storia/IMMAGINI/Fossile.jpg

 

All them are packed in a raw wood box, inspired by a typical crate of apples from Trentino; it pleasantly contrasts with the dark, polished and higly refined pens.

Moreover, you can also separately buy the roller grip only, and easily exchange it to try all styles of writing. Two pens in one!

 

http://www.giardino.it/pens/storia/IMMAGINI/FossileBox.jpg http://www.giardino.it/pens/storia/IMMAGINI/puntali.jpg

 

Cartridge/converter filled, steel nib.